Flea Market With Alice and Claude
1.26.2015 Sometimes I can't get the globs of music out of my head fast enough. I worry that if I don't, they'll disappear, and a lot of them have. I've been averaging one musical rendering [...]
Escape From The Baby Blue Datsun
When I was in 6th grade my buddy Troy and I were riding our bikes around Cottage Grove. Right here as a matter of fact: We were riding along the center island - obviously 2 [...]
Just Take It Apart
The year: 1981. The specific day: beats the hell out of me. It was cold out, that much I remember. This was the day that I was going to solve the Rubik's Cube. A few [...]
Disco Dance Party In Grandpa’s Den
Sometimes I wish that I had a photographic memory so I could revisit moments from my childhood in much greater detail. Moments such as: Trips to visit the grandparents Buying very pivotal albums from my [...]
The Pool Room
Here's the fifth glob of sound extracted from my melon with the Fishman TriplePlay MIDI pickup which is a tribute to various goings-on in the pool room of the Mendota Heights apartment building that my [...]
S-10
I've owned one new vee-hickle in my lifetime (so far, at least): a 1993 black Chevy S10. Man did I ever love that thing. '93 was the last year those trucks had a boxy design [...]
Jet Island
I had the weirdest dream a few weeks ago where I was buckled into the seat of a massive airplane that was about to take off. It was cavernous and empty; there weren't any seats [...]
My Name Is Prints
Although the guitar is my main instrument of choice I'd have to say my second favorite is the drum machine (Iced Ink's "White Box With Black Buttons" is a love song written for my trusty [...]
Drawing stuff is fun
I'm at over 600 daily Instagram drawings at the time of this post. Dang! When I was a dozen or so drawings in I was wondering not if but how I was going to make [...]
New ICED INK tune alert: “Jetson”
Holy cow, it's been over a year since I built the last Iced Ink song. Usually I average about 2 a year but this past year managed to put a cork on that flow. Doing [...]
Did you ever know that you’re my hero? Here’s a mallet.
I stepped onto the black corduroy rubber mat that triggered the automatic door to open and usher me past the silver gates into Cottage Grove's Coast to Coast store. A buffet of Father's Day gift [...]
Word(s) to my Mother
It's Mother's Day. At least here in Brooklyn NY it is, you'll have to check your local listings and time zones as far as your area is concerned. That being said I miss my maw. [...]
To quote the great Bobcat Goldthwait:
I lost my job. No, I didn't really lose my job. I know where my job is still. It's just that when I go there's this new guy doing it. - Bobcat Goldthwait A couple [...]
Bicicle
Am I Evel? No I'm not. I saw quite a few patches of ice on the sides of the roads as I was biking into work on Wednesday morning. Biking past patches of street ice [...]
I think that I left my brain at the Brian Wilson & Jeff Beck concert
Once upon a time in a galaxy a few decades away MTV was what it stood for: Music Television. Jeff Beck's guitar playing first tapped me on the ears in late 1985 or early 86, [...]
Craigslist for musicians circa 1994/aka me circa B.I.I. (Before Iced Ink)
I've held onto as much documentation as possible pertaining to my musics over the years. Although I've stumbled across this exquisite specimen in my file cabinet over the years I just ran across it again [...]